Despite being known for its gaming industry and casinos, Nevada is one of five states without a statewide lottery. That’s by design.
A statewide lottery is banned in Nevada’s 159-year-old constitution. The constitution was written when lotteries were seen as corrupt and coincided with a series of national reforms, most famously abolition, that swept the United States in the 1800s.
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